News

As extreme weather events like floods ravage some parts of the world, Singapore’s weather forecasting body is continuing its work to provide better predictions.

The Straits Times reports on the chances of haze returning to Singapore from fires in Indonesia, includes comments by Professor Rajasekhar Bala (Civil and Environmental Engineering).

Media coverage of the launch of the new Coastal Protection and Flood Resilience Institute, hosted at NUS.

Media coverage of the launch of the new Coastal Protection and Flood Resilience Institute, hosted at NUS.

An electric car built by NUS students comes ahead of teams from engineering powerhouses such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Texas in Austin and University of California, Berkeley at the Formula SAE competition held in Michigan.

Report on research field trials, led by a team at CDE, of road surfacing mixtures made using plastic waste.

Report on the opening of an exhibition, The Lost Cities Series: Kampong Port Cities Of Pre-Colonial Era.

Report on the development of the world's first "biological camera", which can encode and store data through the biological mechanism of living cells.

Media reports on the launch of the Galassia-2 satellite, built by NUS students, along with several other Singapore satellites from a space centre in southern India.

Report on the effect on consumer behaviour of the 5 cent plastic bag charge recently introduced by major supermarket chains in Singapore.

With a high risk of severe transboundary haze this year, consumers are turning to air purifiers.

A paper-thin sensor patch the size of a postage stamp attached to the skin could soon help to determine how well a wound is healing – without the need to remove its dressing.